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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / The purpose of this study is to discover the needs of second grade children in a town which is suburban, residential and near a metropolitan area. The analysis of the needs will be made in reference to the basal reader. Children coming to the second grade bring a wide variety of experiences. The home, the community, the first grade, and in some cases, the nursery school and the kindergarten have provided experiences for the child. At the second grade level, I many children are doing independent reading which they have never been able to do before. Some children come from homes where they have had opportunity for innumerable experiences, others from environments where experiences have been limited. If a teacher knows a child's specific strengths and weaknesses, she can direct his work in the light of his ability as well as his experiential background, and thus build up his feeling of security and success. Therefore, this study is an attempt to discover the experience background of 208 children in the second grade through vocabulary using a diagnostic picture test for the New York Play Books Second Reader, We Grow Up, published by the Macmillan Company, 1939.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between the parental attitudes of acceptance and rejection and skill in reading in a group of fifty-eight male students from a private preparatory school. Parental attitudes tend to fall into two main classifications: acceptance and rejection. The attitude of parental acceptance is closely related to the sentiment of love. The attitude of parental rejection is closely related to the sentiment of hate. Many parents have ambivalent feelings of love and hate for their children, but there is a tendency for either acceptance or rejection to be predominant in the total parental relationship with the child.

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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / The purpose or this study is: 1. To discover and analyze the strengths in silent and oral reading in the intermediate grades. 2. To discover and analyze the needs that are apparent ia silent and oral reading in the intermediate grades. The writer has found during his experience that pupils in the intermediate grades have many reading difficulties. In numerous instances many teachers have had mixed opinions as to the cause for this situation. This has served as a challenge to the writer to make further investigation into the possible cause and solutions.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University